Darwin’s Cats: Using Citizen Science to Crack the Cat Code

Why do some cats love to play in cardboard boxes? Darwin’s Cats is on a mission to uncover the mysteries of cat behavior, and we need your help to crack the code! Photo by Arina Krasnikova on Pexels.

Have you watched your cat make a beeline for an empty box or zoom around the room after a nap and wondered: why do they do that? 

Scientists have pondered the same questions, but there are few definitive answers. Despite being our companions for centuries, our scientific understanding of cats is surprisingly sparse.